Salpingitis - PID

Salpingitis describes an infection and inflammation in the fallopian tubes. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is also commonly used for the same condition, the difference being that PID can refer to several diseases of the female upper genital tract, such as endometriosis, oophoritis, myometritis, parametritis and infection in the pelvic peritoneum. So Salpingitis only refers to infection and inflammation in the fallopian tubes.

Infertility, because the eggs released in ovulation can't be reached by sperm

The more infections, the more risk of infertility

Ovarian abscess

Damaged oviducts increase the possibillity of an ectopic pregnancy. So, once one has had salpingitis, there is a 7 to 10-fold risk of an etopic pregnancy with around 50% of ectopic pregnancies being due to a salpingitis infection

Infection of sex partners

Diagram of a basic view of the layout of the Fallopian Tubes which is the base site of Salpingitis4